Coalition: Northern governor reacts to report of Buhari, CPC bloc dumping APC

The governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule has debunked reports that former president Muhammadu Buhari and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) bloc of the All Progressives Congress are planning to dump the party.

Sule also cautioned opposition party members and aggrieved APC leaders to desist from wooing Buhari towards joining them in their protest against the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

According to the governor, Buhari has no interest in joining the coalition championed by a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai who was also a member of the CPC bloc of the party.

The governor said this while speaking at the grand reception organised by the chairmen of the 13 local government areas of the state in honour of the recently appointed Secretary to the Nasarawa State Government, Labaran Magaji.

“There is nothing like taking CPC away. There is only one person in this world that can decide for the CPC, and that is our father, Muhammadu Buhari. Nobody speaks of the CPC more than this man. The day he says CPC is with you, then CPC is with you,” Suke said.

Further describing Buhari as CPC himself, Sule said the former president has continued to carry his 12 million votes everywhere he goes.

“The day he says CPC is not with you, it is not with you. Because he is the CPC himself. He keeps carrying his 12 million voters along with him everywhere he goes, so he is also not going anywhere.

“That was why we went to see him in Kaduna, and we said ‘Baba, you are not going anywhere. We are going to be in this house (APC) together so that we will continue to build our house,” Sule added.